Evgeny StodushnyAbout classical music and the state.How are cultural policy and support of symphony orchestras connected? Russian and foreign experience.

№4 (27) December 2007

Endowment is in Russia alreadyThe specific capital law for nonprofit organizations including municipal and state institutions promises considerable possibilities of formation of additional financing sources and it is unexampled in Russia’s practice.

№1 (24) March 2007

Alexander DolginIs the market without copyright possible?The article issues from problems of the new legislation of intellectual property protection as well. But here the author is interested not so much in juridical casuistry as in the sense and the future of copyright, of this pillar of the modern commercial culture, in the conditions of impetuous development of informational technologies. What is the alternative?

№1 (24) March 2007

Alexander DolginNew Economy of CultureThe main goal of this book is to introduce a new scientific discipline which would answer the call of the modern times. The author puts forward an innovative set of management tools.

Alexei LebedevWhat is result in culture?It is an interesting question. It is hardly possible to measure this result with help of norms and various indicators to what the Ministry of Finance calls upon, and what is ready to listen the head of government cabinet. Russian national culture, as it seems, to this very day it is mostly what we have as a heritage from 19-th century. Samples of civil behaviour, spiritual and philosophic findings, samples of honour, dignity, ethics of human relationship come from there. And all this is a cultural result of the epoch. Was there cultural policy then? I think, no. But there probably was a social order, not governmental but namely social, an order of certain layers of a society, an order to oneself.
Today, a Minister of Defence expressed himself about moronity of a nation. So how to act? We should act by means clear to organization men that is to turn all notions into numbers and plan it for years. At that somebody has to describe final result for which government is ready to pay. However, who is this ‘somebody’? Director of a theatre? Head of cultural department?.. The government does not formulate national strategy, apart from ‘to heighten vertical line’…
Overcoming perplexity, professional community reflects on this subject. Now the word is given to Alexei Lebedev, the expert of Russian Institute of Cultural Science.

Galina BoyarkovaTo choose an aim and not to lose it by choosing the meansLeaders of the culture development of Pskov region reflect on the problems of the realization of budget reform in the sphere of culture of small towns and villages. What are the targets of the reform? How much do they correspond the achieved during the last ten years level of the sphere development and people involved in it? What are the remote places capable of? What we have to and can manage – finance or processes? And how to do it?